Bohemia Recap – September 2024
Summer’s over and the leaves are changing. While temperatures may be starting to drop, the heat continues to ratchet up here at Bohemia Interactive.
DayZ remained focused on the upcoming and highly-anticipated release of DayZ Frostline. Arma Reforger, meanwhile, released a bunch of helpful articles and three separate updates to Arma Reforger Experimental. Not to be outdone, Arma 3 celebrated 11 years of existence, Ylands introduced update 2.4, and Vigor dropped its biggest update in years on four platforms at once. Finally, there was a new introduction mission released in Silica, and Skyhorse officially said hello to the world by establishing its new social media channels.
So get comfy and fasten your seatbelts, as we take a trip back to the month of September!
DayZ
September was a quieter month for us, with everyone focused on the release of DayZ Frostline. We kicked off a strong and increased social presence, however, through our DayZ Frostline dev streams and supporting dev blogs.
These efforts were all about building excitement within the community for DayZ Frostline. In week 36, we revealed insulation variants for different maps, along with the new map size of Sakhal and details about the ice shelf areas. In week 38, we talked about Sakhal's release date and pricing.
All of this served as a lead up to the highly anticipated release of DayZ Frostline and our exclusive streamer event on October 1st. Check out our DayZ Brand Manager’s stream below for a full rundown of the event. And stay tuned for October’s recap, where we’ll talk about DayZ Frostline and its release in more detail.
Arma Reforger
The Bohemia Interactive 25th Anniversary Sale saw Arma Reforger offered for 25% off on Steam. With this sale, we welcomed an influx of new recruits to the battle for Arland and Everon. We released two new Arma Reforger Boot Camp articles for these new players and series veterans alike. The Health System Boot Camp helps familiarize soldiers with the four core health items in their inventory, as well as the gameplay mechanics in place to keep them and their comrades battle ready. The Communications Boot Camp outlines Arma Reforger's radio systems, and how and when to communicate relevant information via voice and text in an efficient and concise manner.
Arma Reforger Experimental received three separate updates in September. One of them featured a Public Play Session, which allowed the community to play alongside developers and provide feedback on upcoming assets and improvements.
PS5 when? This has been a question repeatedly asked by the community. On September 13th, we revealed when: Soon™. Check out our teaser video here.
We released a new Modding Update article in anticipation of Arma Reforger's upcoming 1.2.1 update. The article shares details on the reworking of and improvements to explosive damage and other explosive-related changes to the game.
Arma 3
On September 12th, Arma 3 celebrated 11 years of operations! We received a number of replies and well-wishes across our social media accounts, and the community reflected upon all their time with Arma 3 and the Arma franchise as a whole. A big thank you to all our developers, past and present, as well as our third-party partners for everything they’ve done over the past 11 years. We thank our community of players, content creators, and modders for their tireless dedication, and for making Arma 3 the premier military simulation platform it is today!
We released a new Arma 3 Mods blogpost, this time featuring the nearly 1,000 boat and ship mods available on the Steam Workshop. This series will continue with upcoming articles on community made faction, terrain, and function mods.
On September 27th, Arma Community Managers LeClair and Nillers hosted some special guests for an Arma 3 Play Session Live Stream featuring armored operations. Using the Burnes Armory Challenger 2 Mod, players secured numerous enemy positions and engaged in armored combat in a scenario heavily inspired by Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead's main campaign. If you missed the stream, you can watch the VOD of the event, which is from LeClair's Zeus Game Master perspective.
Arma community members and content creators Chewie and Ceb.Cin also recorded the scenario from their perspectives as tank crew members:
Vigor
September saw us teasing Eikevjen and releasing multiple short videos focused on action heroes. Speaking of releases, we dropped our biggest update in years on 4 platforms at once! It featured multiple engine updates, a Weapons Overhaul, a new map, Chinese localization, a new weapon, and many improvements. Check out the full blog, Dev Diary Stream, and the trailer:
The full PC release finally happened! Kudos to everyone who helped! Enjoy the trailer below, which features amazing music from Lichočar:
You can read more about it on Steam.
Ylands
We released update 2.4! The experimental version received many positive reviews, and people have been enjoying this latest release. Thanks to "Building Factory", you can watch this super cool video which sums up pretty much everything that was introduced in this update.
Silica
We released an introduction mission on September 13th which is aimed at providing a better experience for new players.
SkyVerse
September saw the official launch of our social media channels on TikTok, Facebook, and X.
Bohemia Store
Winter's coming, it's getting cold and beanie's price cut 40% off. Warm yourself with a DayZ beanie and get through the chilly weather in style.
Now 40% off in our Bohemia Store until November 8th.
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